{"id":6885,"date":"2021-11-30T10:02:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T15:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/?p=6885"},"modified":"2021-11-30T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T15:02:18","slug":"giving-tuesday-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/2021\/11\/30\/giving-tuesday-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Tuesday Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"yiv5079090734\">\n<div class=\"yiv5079090734MsoNormal\">\n<p>At this time of the year, people often pause to reflect on the past 12 months and count their blessings.\u00a0 Most of us are fortunate to have abundant reasons to be thankful, but a significant number of families in affluent Northern Virginia are struggling.\u00a0 For nearly 20 years, Assistance League of Northern Virginia has given young students and their families reasons to smile and be thankful, by providing them with food bags to sustain them over the weekend, when school meals are not available, as well as new clothing, reading tutoring, new books, and toiletries.\u00a0 The pandemic has caused us to redesign some of our programs and find new recipients, but we have continued to respond to the growing need in our community, even though our revenue has not kept pace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, on Giving Tuesday, think about all you have to be grateful for and let your gratitude spark empathy for those who are not so fortunate.\u00a0 Demonstrate your gratitude by your actions.\u00a0 Please donate to Assistance League of Northern Virginia so we can continue helping those who most need our help.\u00a0 On average, our chapter spends more than 85% of funds raised in furtherance of our philanthropic programs, so you can be sure your generosity will yield positive results in the community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Use this link to donate:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/givingtuesday.mightycause.com\/organization\/Assistance-League-Of-Northern-Virginia?fbclid=IwAR0kaAAwFm6M74E-XH0N980ga0UfUm4iLAJczj6wFX6Qzkqj6TFkDBmlvt8\">Assistance League of Northern Virginia | Giving Tuesday (mightycause.com)<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Or send a check to Assistance League of Northern Virginia, P.O. Box 209, Herndon, Va., 20172.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this time of the year, people often pause to reflect on the past 12 months and count their blessings.\u00a0 Most of us are fortunate to have abundant reasons to be thankful, but a significant number of families in affluent Northern Virginia are struggling.\u00a0 For nearly 20 years, Assistance League of Northern Virginia has given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30358,"featured_media":6884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6886,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885\/revisions\/6886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}